In the media
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UN calls for urgent rethink as resource use skyrockets 21 March 2019The International Resource Panel of the United Nations Environment Programme, with CML researcher Ester van der Voet as member, has prepared a report ...
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Vijver en Barmentlo in radio show Vroege Vogels about Living Lab results 05 March 2019Water fleas and damselflies are much more sensitive to crop protection products in nature than in the lab. These test results from the Living Lab were...
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Michael Richardson in TV show Willem Wever about antibiotics from snake venom 05 March 2019'What do people do with snake venom?' That's the question 11-year-old Joep asked in Dutch TV show Willem Wever. Leiden Professor of Evolutionary devel...
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Was the EU’s ban on electric fishing the right decision? 18 February 2019Last week, on 13 February 2019, the EU approved the ban on pulse trawling. This followed the vote for a ban by the European Parliament on 16 January 2...
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Hans de Iongh at National Geographic for Big Cat Month 29 January 2019In the theme of Big Cat Month, National Geographic interviewed Professor Hans de Iongh, guest researcher of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (C...
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International attention for solution long-standing scientific problem 22 January 2019Solving a scientific problem after decades: it’s a long-lasting dream for many scientists. Consequently, the research of Leiden and Eindhoven chemists...
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Carel ten Cate budgerigar study in various media 11 January 2019If male budgerigars can successfully open a puzzle box with food, they become more attractive to females. Biologist Carel ten Cate and Chinese colleag...
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Computer scientists from Leiden and Eindhoven optimise building designs 17 December 2018The design process of new buildings is extremely complex due to strict requirements. Computer models are used to create the designs. Scientists from L...
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Arie-Willem de Leeuw in Mare on using big data to run marathons 27 November 2018Arie-Willem de Leeuw, Postdoc at LIACS, analysed the running data of the Boston Marathon. In Mare he explains how to optimise your long distance runs.
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Media attention inaugural lecture ecotoxicologist Martina Vijver 19 November 2018Time and again synthesised substances have been shown to pollute the environment more than lab tests predicted. In her inaugural lecture on 16 Novembe...
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German n-tv visits In Ovo and Thomas Hankemeier 13 November 2018Startup In Ovo received a large investment in October for the further development of a method to determine the sex of chicken eggs, which would save t...
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Quanta Magazine: where does Ewine van Dishoeck get her ideas? 05 November 2018In what settings do great ideas turn op? Quanta Magazine follows top scientists to their favorite places to think, tinker and create. Leiden astronome...
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Roxanne Kieltyka interviewed by Leidsch Dagblad 30 October 2018In an interview with newspaper "Leidsch Dagblad" Roxanne Kieltyka talks about the relationship between chemistry and biomedical research in her work.
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CLAIRE in I/O magazine 08 October 2018The October 2018 issue of I/O magazine, the quarterly magazine of ICT-research Platform Netherlands (IPN), includes coverage of CLAIRE.
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Leiden physicists in the media on Nobel Prize 04 October 2018The 2018 Physics Nobel Prize is awarded to Arthur Ashkin, Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou for their research on optical tweezers based on lasers. L...